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Parasitic Saprotrophic Mushrooms

Parasitic Saprotrophic mushrooms on KnowTheSpore, with edibility ratings, identification tips, and safety notes.

Dense cluster of honey-brown Australian honey fungus with dark cap scales and ringed stems at a eucalyptus base

Australian Honey Fungus

Armillaria luteobubalina

Australian honey fungus forms dense autumn clusters with honey-brown scaled caps, cream-white spores…

Caution
A large bracket of chicken of the woods in overlapping shelves on an oak trunk, sulphur yellow margins grading to bright orange

Chicken of the Woods

Laetiporus sulphureus

Chicken of the woods is one of the easiest wild mushrooms to recognize and one of the easier ones to get…

Caution
Dried caterpillar fungus specimens, each a pale tan caterpillar body with a dark club growing from the head

Cordyceps

Ophiocordyceps sinensis

Cordyceps is a fungus that kills a caterpillar and grows a club out of its head, and it is one of the most…

Medicinal
A large hen of the woods rosette at the base of an oak trunk, overlapping gray-brown fronds with pale wavy margins

Maitake

Grifola frondosa

Maitake is the one common wild edible you can own as a place rather than find as an event. It returns to the…

Choice
Tremella snow fungus growing from a fallen hardwood branch as a dense rosette of thin translucent white frilled lobes

Tremella

Tremella fuciformis

Tremella does not eat wood. It is a parasite of other fungi, and the branch it appears on is being eaten by…

Edible

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